In a business environment marked by tariff uncertainty and geopolitical conflicts such as the Middle East, the Mexican manufacturing industry registered advances in April 2026, according to the Timely Monthly Indicator of Manufacturing Activity (IMOAM), prepared by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) .
In the fourth month of the year, the agency anticipated a 1.3% increase in manufacturing activity compared to April 2025.
In the reference period, the IMOAM had a value of 107.9 points , as an advance calculation of the Monthly Indicator of Industrial Activity (IMAI) of the manufacturing sector.
According to figures released Wednesday by IMOAM, the Mexican manufacturing sector has shown resilience in the face of global trade changes.
According to CIAL Dun & Bradstreet , a firm specializing in advanced data solutions and analysis, the industrial sector, which represents 30.6% of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with a value of 561 billion dollars in 2025, continues to face difficulties in recovering.
In that sense, he estimated that the expected growth for this sector in 2026 will be only 0.9 percent .
Given this, he considered that the Mexican economy needs to strengthen investment and productivity to counteract industrial fragility.
The Timely Monthly Indicator of Manufacturing Activity is an experimental statistic to estimate in advance the next monthly value of the manufacturing IMAI, Inegi indicated.
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